Sunday October 31st
It was a special Sunday in church for the local people as they were praying for the Primary 7 children and also the final year nursing students. The P7 (end of primary school) have their exams on Tuesday and Wednesday. The whole service was rather like harvest festival with each child or student bringing an offering mainly of fruits but including a chicken and a goat! The goat had to be removed to stop it disturbing proceedings by its bleating! I was summoned out of the service after 2 and quarter hours to attend to some patients on the medical wards. The young man with tetanus unfortunately died this morning leaving his family very distressed. Another lady needed a transfusion organising and another man in his 20s was admitted unconscious so everything carries on and will continue to do so after I have left. This is a busy place serving half a million people, equivalent to the whole of East Sussex or put another way all the services provided by Eastbourne DGH and Hastings Conquest hospitals combined.
This evening a surgeon working with AMREF in Kenya has arrived to help over the next week with fistula surgery. Had a brief chat with him and it seems he was at school in Iten which is about 30 miles from Kapsowar where Ann and I were in the early 1980s. It’s a small world.
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